Woman who says her daughter Abcde was ‘name shamed’ isn’t getting a lot of sympathy

You have to be careful with names. Twitter just made it clear that you can be banned for “deadnaming” someone; that is, using a trans person’s birth name rather than the one they picked to match their new gender.

And now there’s “name shaming,” which has happened to a lot of people (like a certain high school classmate whose parents had named him Kermit in the late ’60s, for example).

This video has been going around for a couple of days, and in it a mother alleges that Southwest Air employees made fun of her daughter’s name, which is Abcde (pronounced AB-city, duh).

Name shaming? This Texas woman claims a @SouthwestAir agent made fun of her 5-year-old daughter's name as they were preparing to board their flight at @JohnWayneAir in Orange County.

My wife is an educator and had a student with the same name. There was another student attending a different school my wife taught, named La-a (pronounced 'la-DASH-uh' – "the dash ain't silent," as the parent said).

Did she NOT anticipate this very situation?? I'm not condoning an adult mocking a child in public – I'm just saying that this WILL be a REGULAR THING for her daughter. I don't have an H in my name and I was mocked… Children aren't kind. And shitty teachers are everywhere!

She named her child ABCDE and is appalled because someone said something funny? So Mom, why didn't you just name your child, Abcity? I would have said: Will the Alphabet person please sing yourself forward?